Anti-Gaddafi forces
DEPOSED Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has phoned a TV station vowing to defeat opposition forces and Nato – as a home video emerges of him playing with his family. Col Gaddafi said he was not giving up and that “resistance against the rats” would be escalated.
His defiant battle cry came as anti-Gaddafi forces claimed they had surrounded the former Libyan dictator and it was only a matter of time before he was captured.
Meanwhile, a video from the Gaddafi family archive has emerged showing the leader playing with his granddaughter, and with his son Saadi and his family. The whereabouts of Col Gaddafi is unknown, but the live phone call apparently made from Libya to the Syrian Al Orouba TV channel, was aired earlier.
He said: “The youths are now ready to escalate the resistance against the ‘rats’ (anti-Gaddafi forces) in Tripoli and to finish off the mercenaries. “We will defeat Nato… and Nato is rejected by the Libyan people.”
Col Gaddafi said the Libyan military convoy, which French and Niger military sources said showed up in the northern Niger city of Agadez this week, was nothing exceptional. “Columns of convoys drive into and out of Niger carrying goods and people inside and outside (of Libya) say Gaddafi is going to Niger,” he said.
“This is not the first time that convoys drive in and out of Niger.”
Col Gaddafi’s spokesman has repeatedly said he is in Libya and remains in high spirits. Niger said he was not in the convoy.
Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) has sent envoys to Niger to try to stop Col Gaddafi and his entourage from evading justice by fleeing across a desert frontier. A spokesman for Tripoli’s new military council said it was only a matter of time until he was captured or killed.
Source: Sky News